Improvement in vegetable-cutters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROYAL H. PECK, OE woLcorr, VERMONT, AssiGNoa-To HIMsELF AND E. M.y GIEEORD AND oERiLL WHITNEY. i

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36, B 94, dated August 12, Y1862.

To @ZZ whom it' may concern:

Be it known that I, ROYAL H. Pack, of W`olcott, in the county of Lamoille, in the State of Vermont, have invented a certain new and useful ImprovcmentinVegetableCutters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of the back or cutting part of the entire machine, and Fig. 2is a diagram intended better to exhibit the effect of the invention.

In my machine the material is cut in slices bya knife or by knives which are carried on a revolving wheel, and the slices are also cut or very deeply scored across in deep gashes, so as to very readily break into rectangular masses in a still more finely-divided condition.

The nature of my invention consists in the xing of a suitable set of knives, to effect the latter or transverse cutting', on ahinged plate or piece, which may be adjusted in different positions tograduate the thickness ofthe slices, and consequently to graduate the ease of operation of the `machine and the speed with which the material may be out up.

My machine is adapted to cut potatoes and all the varieties of roots, as also all the varieties of other vegetable food used for farm purposes. It may be operated by hand or by any convenient power, is simple and cheap, and the adjustment may be made by so simple means as to require but a verysmall degree of skill, and my improvement may be said to be applicable for all the purposes where rotary cuttingmachines or other cutting-machines are now :required or used. Itv serves the same purpose as other machines, with the additional advantage of the adjustment. The adjustment is very simply and conveniently effected by means of a screw mounted in such manner as to act on'the outer face of the wheel, where it can be readily accessible, and to control the plates or boards in which the transverse cutters are mounted through the agency of arms projecting therefrom, in the manner represented in the figures, which figures will now be specifically described by the aid of the letters of reference marked thereon.

Similar letters of reference denote like parts in both gures.

A is a capacious hopper, made perpendicular on the side next the cutting-wheel B and inclined on all its other sides, so as 'the sides shall approach each other at the bottom. Therev cavity b, reckoning according to the motionof the wheel, and the hinder edges of the cavitles b b are beveled, as represented, to facilitate the escape of the cut portions.

In the forward end of each cavity Z) is a fixed' shaft, E, extending across in a line radial, or nearly so, to the wheel B. On this shaft 1s mounted a board,G, having a form corresponding nearly to the aperture b, and sufficiently smaller to 'move freely therein, this latter movement being effected by its turning on the shaft E.

On or near the rear end of each plate or board G are fixed a series of short knives or cutters, J, standing at right angles therewith and with their edges forward, as represented. rIhese knives may be so mounted as to be adjustable in G, either as to their 4distance apart or their extent of projection therefrom,which adjustment may be effected by the use of any ordinary devices known to mechanics; but I do not deem such necessary to the successful .use of m-ymachine.l I prefer, for simplicity,

and economy, to secure them by driving and pinning or otherwise rigidly securing the same in xed positions within the board or plate G. On the outer face of G, opposite to these cutters, is fixed a strong arm, 4g. This arm is traversed by a suitable screw, H,which is tapped into the solid part of the wheel B, forward of the corresponding shaft E, as represented. That part of the screw which stands in the arm g is grooved and receives ai pin, h, as represented, which pin is fixed in the arm g, sosthat as the screw is turned the pin li, and consequently the arm g, is caused to approach nearer to or retreat from the outer face of the` cutter-Wheel B. The movements of the arm g necessarily compel a corresponding position in the plate or board G, causing the latter to stand near the plane of the wheel B,`as shown in the dark lines, or to assume a position more widely divergent therefrom, as shown by the red lines. In the position shown by the black lines the material will be cut ner than in that shown by the red lines, and the power required Will be greater to cut a given quantity. [n the position shown by the red lines the transverse gashes made by the knives .I will not entirely divide the material; but they will cut it suE- ciently nearly asunder along each line to answer most purposes. If the cutters .I are also made adjustable in G, as above suggested, they may be made to cut the material across en tirely i-n each position.

A,substantia11y as herein shown and described.-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, ROYAL H. PECK.

Witnesses:

H. G. CHUBB, p SETH H. PECK. 

